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authorKai Stevenson <kai@kaistevenson.com>2024-01-31 14:30:46 -0800
committerKai Stevenson <kai@kaistevenson.com>2024-01-31 14:30:46 -0800
commit9c01216957a3fa056e0a2f3f1a0de009d9eb68b8 (patch)
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parenta73f6f1972ef126715ed0076b659e73644edfb6d (diff)
wrote more hard problem, removed git commands from updatesite
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diff --git a/src/writing/hardproblem.php b/src/writing/hardproblem.php
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human history, and is deeply important to the philosophy and religion of a significant portion of those alive today.
</p>
<h2>The Problem</h2>
+<p>
+ If the brain adequately explains human psychology, if thoughts are merely specific patterns of neurons firing,
+ it seems that there is no place for the soul in modern science.
+</p>
+<h2>Thought Experiment</h2>
+<p>
+ Suppose we had access to some form of device capable of precisely measuring the exact state of every neuron and neurotransmitter
+ in some test subject's brain. Suppose that we could record this data over a few minutes, and run the tape in reverse, observing the
+ cause of every effect. We would introduce some stimulus to the subject--say, a red cube--who would have been instructed to describe
+ what he sees. We would observe his statement, "I see a red cube," and end the recording.
+ We begin analyzing the data. First, we note which neurons were responsible for signalling the muscular activity required to create
+ speech. We name this set N0. We record the set of all neurons whose axon terminals had interaction with any neuron in N0, and name
+ these after the neuron with which they interacted. We iteratively perform this regress until we have a tree structure which contains
+ every neuron involved in the signal processing from observation to statement.
+</p>
+<p>
+ The question is as follows: would, at any point in the recording, a neuron demonstrate behaviour not in line with the action
+ potential model? Specifically, would a neuron ever fire without a measurable physical cause? In the case where this does occur,
+ we have observed what appears to be something very strange--a physical effect without a physical cause. In the case where this
+ does not occur, we have observed something perhaps stranger.
+</p>
<?php require($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . "/footer.php"); ?>
diff --git a/updatesite b/updatesite
index b70eb7c..b89b23e 100755
--- a/updatesite
+++ b/updatesite
@@ -4,7 +4,3 @@ ssh root@aberrantflux.xyz "cd /srv/http/aberrantflux-site ; chown -R http:http t
if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
exit 0
fi
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-git add .
-git commit -m "$1"
-git push origin